Tunnel Vision Uses Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps

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Tunnel Vision Uses Augmented Reality to Animate NYC Subway Maps
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A new iPhone app is using augmented reality (http://mashable.com/category/augmented-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and big data to create animated visualizations based on New York's subway system.

Tunnel Vision enables users to see which stations are likely to be the most crowded and view where in the system their train theoretically is — simply by pointing their iPhone at a subway map.

See also: How to Get the Most Out of the New Google Maps (http://mashable.com/2014/05/06/google-maps-3-0-hands-on/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


The iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tunnel-vision-nyc/id867860522?ls=1&mt=8) will recognize any map of the subway — whether it's a wall map, a paper map or an onscreen map. Once it recognizes the map, it overlays animated visualizations that display transit and demographic data for different areas of New York City, based on where they are located in relation to the subway. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/24/tunnel-vision-app/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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